Emmeline Gros

NO CLASS

This week, my students had no class. We met on campus for special research sessions, learned how to do research, how to quote from sources, and how to assess the validity and credibility of the sources found.

AN Inconvenient Truth continued, using the following handouts: - Types of Claims - Types of Proofs - Assignment

Today, I gave back the Focus Essays that students had written last week. This gave me the opportunity to talk about what they should do and whould not do when studying literature. As I had noticed that most of them still did not know how to use MLA, I...

Today, students continued their presentations on fallacies found in movies, etc. We then finished our discussion on the poem The Colonel. I love using this poem to introduce the analysis of characters and how characters can define themselves against other...

Objectives: We have now spent a whole month on analyzing arguments, claims, identifying types of proofs and types of claims, warrants, etc. We have also discussed our first theme of the year: Individual vs. Community. Students turned in their first focus...

Tuesday was a research day, meaning that the class did not meet, yet students were supposed to go to the library to do some research on their own on a topic or issue they were interested in. Working in groups, they had to produce the results of their...

Today, no class. Students were asked to go to the library to start researching on a controversial topic. They were asked to use the databases we have here at GSU and to bring an annotated bibliography of the article they will have read.

Objective: Today, I introduced the Rogerian Model. Students had an activity in class, on different topics. Working in pairs, they have to argue on the different topics and try to find a way to reconcile the diverging views with the Rogerian model. Application/Exercise:...

Objective: Today, we worked on the Types of Claims (Fact, Cause, Value, Definition, Policy). Using three pieces, "Richard Cory" "I am alone" and "A Worn Path" we talked about the claims of definition - Who is who? How are we perceived by others? How can...